FACULTY: Science
DEPARTMENT: Geology
NAME OF STAFF: Christopher M. Agyingi
E-mail: christopher. agyingi@ubuea.cm
Secondary E-mail: cmagyingi@gmail.com, cm_agyingi@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 677875030
GRADE: Associate Professor
BRIEF EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology Univ. of Ibadan,
M.Sc Petroleum Geology Univ. of Ibadan,
BSc Geology Univ. of Ibadan,
Post-Doc Fuel Resources Department Geological Survey of Japan,
PGD Environmental Management, Dresden Technical University
RESEARCH INTEREST AREA
Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology
Kwankam F. N., 2016, Sedimentology and Geochemistry of the Tertiary Nkapa Formation at Kompina and environs, northern Douala Basin, Cameroon.
Manga V. E., 2009, Geochemistry and mineralogy of soils developed along a toposequence on
Mt. Cameroon, West Africa. 251pp.
PUBLICATIONS
Agyingi C.M., O.K. Agagu., K.F. Fozao, O.A. Njoh., N. Ngalla (2013)., Depositional patterns and hydrocarbon occurrence in middle to upper Miocene strata in part of the western Niger Delta Basin, Nigeria., Journal of African Earth Sciences 80 p. 21–30. Elsevier Pub.
Agyingi C. M., O. K. Agagu, J. O. Idowu, 2004, Geology and petroleum prospects of the south eastern Bida basin, Nigeria, Africa Geoscience Review, vol.11 No.2 Rock View Ltd., France pp. 141-152.
Agyingi C. M and S. Tokuhashi., 1995, Heavy mineral composition of the Neogene turbidite sandstones in the middle part of the Niigata backarc oil basin, central Japan – Part I: Western (Nishiyama) and Central (Chuo) oil belts, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan, Vol. 46(2)
Agyingi. C. M., S. Tokuhashi and A. Nishimura., 1995, Heavy mineral composition of surface sediments around the Ross sea, Antarctica, Journal of the sedimentological society of Japan, No. 41, pp 17 – 25.
Agyingi C. M., 1993, Palynological evidence for a late Cretaceous age for the Patti Formation, eastern Bida basin, Nigeria, Journal of African Earth Sciences and the Middle East Elsevier Pub., vol. 17( 4), pp 513- 523.
Agyingi C. M., 1994, Environments of deposition of upper Cretaceous clastics of the Bida basin inferred from lithofacies and granulometric analysis, Science de la Terre, Série Informatique, Nancy, pp 417 – 430.
Personal Summary
Christopher Agyingi is an Associate Professor of Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology. He has studied sediments ancient and modern, in surface and sub-surface from the Bida and the Niger Delta basins in Nigreia, the Niigata oil basin in Japan, the Ross in Antarctica and the Rio del Rey, Douala, Figuil and Manmfe basins in Cameroon. He has supervised over 25 post graduate theses including a thesis on the Mamfe basin that won the Belgian Development Cooperation Prize. He also obtained a prize in 2008 for his contribution to the knowledge of sedimentary basins in Cameroon from the Cameroon National Hydrocarbon Company known by its French acronym SNH. He has published over 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has 22 conference presentations to his credit. He has also held the BMU/UNEP/UNESCO fellowship at the Dresden University of Technology and the Science and Technology Post-Doctoral Fellowship (STA) at the Fuel Resources Department of the Geological Survey of Japan.
He is the Head of the Department of Geology and also Head of the Petroleum Research Group in the Department. His current research is in the area of petroleum systems in the Gulf of Guinea, petroleum reservoir heterogeneity from heavy mineral studies and basin analysis. He is also involved in interdisciplinary research in the area geomaterials for the local industry including volcanic ash and carbonate rocks.
